So, what did everyone think? This was actually the first Mark Gatiss script I've actually liked. It was really creepy in places and funny in others. Not the best of the series so far, but not bad at all.

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I thought it was a bit too similar to "Fear Her" and I guessed the youngster was an `alien` almost right away-and i'm not very sharp in that way really!

Too many odd happenings with no real explanation (That I could discern)

The `Doll House` scenes were nice and spooky which was a plus!

I'm afraid the fellow who played the yougsters Dad (Alex?) gave-in my view just about the worst performance in a Dr Who story since Joseph Furst back in 1967! Execrable to put it mildly! Am I the only one to find this character- just awfully portrayed?

I watched the Sunday repeat and could not find it any better; I dare say I expected too much!

The `Underwater Menace` was rather `camp` in style, so Joseph Furst was just right for that style of story. I should have liked to see him in a different style of Dr Who as I know he can do `serious` very well!

Take Ronald Allen for example! In the `Dominators` his slightly OTT character perfectly suited that story. However, in the far more seriously slanted `Ambassadors of Death` his performance as Ralph Cornish was perfectly tailored for that story!

Another actor who seemed to be always able to adjust his performance to suit the tone of the story was the aforementioned Philip Madoc, of course His wonderfully mad Mehendri Solon is a world away from the War Lord, Eelek or Fenner.

A great performance! I havn't seen that one in years, but I can recall two superb bits of dialogue from him! First, when he meets The Doctor- "What A Wonderful Head!" And later when his servant is pestering him to sew back a humanoid arm "Any third rate Hack can sow on an arm, it takes real skill to put in a brain!" (Sic)